The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1887-02-09
DOLLS, WIGS OF REAL HAIR.
A New Industry to Meet the Demands o
Childron of Means.

New Industry to Meet the Demands of
Childr0n of Means.
a new industry has sprung up on Fifth
avenue. 1t is the manufacture of real
wigs for dolls out of real hair, made bet
ter than many real wigs and sold at
prices that proclaim them to be genuine.
The place takes up the whole first floor of
a big house. The dolls wigs are only an
incident to the business. The first dolls
wigs were made this year. Tho head of
the firm told about the way he happened
to start making them:
For several years have had calls for
dolls wigs from ladies whose children
had torn the hair from dolls they were
much attached to. This season / began
70 make them, and have received far
more orders than had expected. Here
is doll that has been sent over to Pllila-
delphia for its second wig.
The proprietor took the reporter to a
counter whore lay beautiful doll about
two feet high, with ball and socket joints
and pink complexion except where the
paint had worn off. On its head was a
real wig of light blonde hair with fluffy
hang front and French twist clirls behind.
Tho hair seemed to be glued to the head,
yet the wig came right off. 1t was as
maker had manufactured It for a human
head. 1t cost only $I2.
1T is becoming quite common" con-
tinued the mistress of the store, '.for a
doll to have two or three wigs. They are
got up in all styles, like the wigs of a
fashionable actress, only smaller. They
are just as we'll made and Just as yalua-
BILE in proportion. The hair is dressed by
the little girl that owns the doll, and it
gives her knowledge and experience that
will be useful. Two or three wigs in
different styles give the little girl chance
to develop her own ingenuity In arrang-
ing hair. BY the old way dolls hair was
made Of Angora wool and was glued to
their heads. 1t was not like real hair
and it could not be dressed. 1t tore off
and that was the end of it.
'Dolls' wigs cost from 81 to S25. The
81 wigs are for child dolls and have short
cIlrls like little child's. The most costly
wigs are light shades of hair. Light
shades of blonde hair cost three times as
much as brown hair. Some dolls have
light and dark wigs, which can be changed
to match the dolls dress. a doll that
had wig made for it last week had Just
got $3.50 worth of winter clothing. You
can get n shade of wig to match any
dress.
80 far have had orders for no red or
gray wigs. They will probably come in
time. The latest thing in dolls is boy
dolls. We have made several boy wigs.
A little girl out for walk takes her big
boy doll with her. Or she may take a
girl doll and put u boys wig and clothes
On and take it out. There is getting to
be n rivalry among families to sec who
has the best and most fully dressed dolls.
1t is becoming proper for little girl to
be escorted by her doll when she goes out
to take n walk, and of course the doll
must be dressed in harmony with her
dress. 1 don't know what this fashion
for dolls will end in, but the trade in
dolls wigs is rapidly increasing. So far,
believe, am the only manufactures.
1t takes workman two days to make a
dolls wig, and brisk trade in dolls
wigs will make work. New York Sun.